Israeli forces and settlers carry out 20 attacks on Palestinian olive pickers across West Bank

Summary

Israeli forces and settlers carried out 20 attacks on Palestinian olive pickers in six West Bank governorates on Friday, according to the Palestinian Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission, as reported by Middle East Eye citing the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The attacks included detentions, assaults, uprooting of trees and theft of crops, and farmers were blocked from their fields. West of Jericho, settlers entered farmland in ad-Duyuk at-Tahta with their sheep and destroyed crops and greenhouses, which resident Mustafa Fheidat estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels. East of Ramallah, Israeli forces raided the Abu Fazaa Bedouin community for more than three hours, smashing vehicles, assaulting residents and detaining one man. In Hebron, forces closed several Old City neighbourhoods for Jewish holidays, including the Ibrahimi Mosque, which will stay closed to Muslims until Saturday night. Forces also detained three Palestinians, including a journalist, in Hebron and Masafer Yatta, and assaulted a fourth, including a man with a disability who was detained in Khirbet al-Markaz after soldiers tried to take his sheep. In occupied East Jerusalem, two Palestinians were forced to demolish their own homes, which housed 18 people, in Jabal al-Mukabber; the families had paid 25,000 shekels trying to prevent the demolitions.

Timeline

1. Middle East Eye

   6 Nov 2026, 21:50 UTCSource ↗

   Reports that Israeli forces and settlers carried out 20 attacks on Palestinian olive pickers in six West Bank governorates on Friday, citing the Palestinian Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission and Wafa, including detentions, assaults, tree uprooting and crop theft.